By Anna A. Grotans
ISBN-10: 0511191731
ISBN-13: 9780511191732
ISBN-10: 0521803446
ISBN-13: 9780521803441
Studying to learn in medieval Germany intended studying to learn and comprehend Latin in addition to the students' personal language. The instructing equipment utilized in the medieval Abbey of St. Gall live to tell the tale within the translations and commentaries of the monk, pupil and instructor Notker Labeo (ca. 950-1022). Notker's pedagogic strategy, even supposing deeply rooted in classical and monastic traditions, demonstrates innovative ideas that come with supplying translations within the scholars' local German, delivering structural statement within the type of simplified notice order and punctuation, and furnishing targeted markers that helped readers to accomplish texts out loud. Anna Grotans examines this exact interaction among orality and literacy in Latin and outdated excessive German, and illustrates her examine with many examples from Notker's manuscripts. This examine has a lot to give a contribution to our wisdom of medieval studying, and of the connection among Latin and the vernacular in quite a few formal and casual contexts.
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The areas to the west of the Rhineland were Latin-based or Romancespeaking, and the distinction of a “mother” language equated with the vernacular and a “father” language, Latin, was never valid there. As studies by McKitterick, Banniard, Richter, Wright and others have shown, for these Franks, Latin may not 2 See in particular the work of Rosamond McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge: University Press, 1989), and her essays collected in Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th–9th Centuries (Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 1994).
21 In the treatise De dialectica, which was often attributed to Augustine in the Middle Ages, it is explained that: Omne verbum sonat. Cum enim est in scripto, non verbum sed verbi signum est; quippe inspectis a legente litteris occurrit animo, quid voce prorumpat. Quid enim aliud litterae scriptae quam se ipsas oculis, praeter se voces animo ostendunt . . Quae legimus igitur non verba sunt sed signa verborum. [Every word is a sound, for when it is written it is not a word but the sign of a word.
Germanic cultures first came into contact with literacy through the Romans and their language, Latin. With the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity, custody over literacy was secured by the Catholic Church, and Latin soon became the vehicle of the only established literary culture in the West. In Charlemagne’s Empire, the lingua franca was the lingua latina. The caretakers of literary culture were monks and clerics, many of whom were also politically active at the royal courts.
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